The latest linux kernel doesn't boot on my computer

(h=21511abd0a248a3f225d3b611cfabb93124605a7).
elilo hangs while booting this kernel. 2.6.24 works.
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Wow, so we know it's affected with EFI, since you're using elilo.
You gave absolutely zero other information about your system or what

"doesn't boot" mean.
	-hpa

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Here is an older bisection try:

$ git bisect log
git-bisect start

# bad: [dd430ca20c40ecccd6954a7efd13d4398f507728] Merge

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86

git-bisect bad dd430ca20c40ecccd6954a7efd13d4398f507728

# good: [49914084e797530d9baaf51df9eda77babc98fa8] Linux 2.6.24

git-bisect good 49914084e797530d9baaf51df9eda77babc98fa8

# good: [f4d900a2cae94256f56be7769734100c7054bf00] [NETLINK]: Mark

attribute construction exception unlikely

git-bisect good f4d900a2cae94256f56be7769734100c7054bf00

# good: [85040bcb4643cba578839e953f25e2d1965d83d0] [IPV6] ADDRLABEL: Fix

double free on label deletion.

git-bisect good 85040bcb4643cba578839e953f25e2d1965d83d0

# good: [70fd93c9d9e07dd2ea4465df76a0ddd414fd21ac] x86: export cpu_gdt_descr

git-bisect good 70fd93c9d9e07dd2ea4465df76a0ddd414fd21ac

# bad: [306c142f99caef5a30a0d61a39a956c069941b63] x86: pat: e820 cleanup

git-bisect bad 306c142f99caef5a30a0d61a39a956c069941b63

# bad: [7271339347653f6d652bb47aaee1f57d936002f6] x86:

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/k7.c checkpatch fixes

git-bisect bad 7271339347653f6d652bb47aaee1f57d936002f6

# bad: [7818a1e0294debee02d5135e17b89f28b8871887] x86: provide 64-bit

with a load_sp0 function.

git-bisect bad 7818a1e0294debee02d5135e17b89f28b8871887

# bad: [2215e69d2cf5024647f9a034807990590d25dd4e] x86 boot: use E820

memory map on EFI 32 platform

git-bisect bad 2215e69d2cf5024647f9a034807990590d25dd4e

# good: [26048d75e8d6c840742468667f4a7ab8c2df74c9] x86: use the same

data type for tls_array.

git-bisect good 26048d75e8d6c840742468667f4a7ab8c2df74c9

# good: [341d8854d38fe6e7655f7748babae5c25a51aa70] x86: remove fastcall

from include/asm-x86

git-bisect good 341d8854d38fe6e7655f7748babae5c25a51aa70

# good: [8c8b8859b64baf6d7c33900e8720c7bafe775b2c] mcheck mce_64:

mce_read_sem to mutex

git-bisect good 8c8b8859b64baf6d7c33900e8720c7bafe775b2c

# good: [de18c850af701ac9512b7239e88fa45e4c168771] x86: EFI runtime

service support: EFI runtime services

git-bisect good de18c850af...
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ELILO is expected to convert the memory map from EFI to e820 format.
EFI32 is likely to be poorly supported, since Apple is likely to be the

only platform to *ever* ship EFI32 in mass production, and it has a BIOS

emulation layer available.
	-hpa

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I'm using elilo-3.6-ia32.efi provided at the elilo homepage.  i wasn't

able to create a working efi toolchain :-(
mfg

thomas

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I'm saying that in my opinion support for EFI32 is likely to be

unreliable and never make it out of "experimental" status.  EFI is

enough of a heap of junk on the 64-bit side.
Ying, do you have any insights?
	-hpa

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3.6 doesn't do the mapping in ia32/system.c create_boot_params().

3.8 does.
The problem is, that i wasn't able to produce a working elilo.efi files

with my gentoo toolchain. the files elilo-3.8.efi provided by the elilo

project also doesn't work (gives a load error from the efi runtime).
So i guess i'm stuck here.
It should be noted somewhere that with Huangs patches, elilo version 3.8

is needed.
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Yes. I will add this.
Best Regards,

Huang Ying
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The release notes with elilo3.7 beta (first integration of Intel EFI 2

patches) does cover this, as well as the toolchain changes required to

build it. fyi
-Jason
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It's a macbook pro with a core duo processor (the one with only 32bits).
Doesn't boot means: i enter the name of the kernel image i want to boot in elilo

and press enter and nothing happens, it just hangs.
i need to press the power button for a few seconds to power off.
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